Narratives of Nonprofit Wrongdoing: Exploring the Case of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network

• In Event: Forgive us: Organizational responses to wrongdoing and conflict

Abstract

This project explores the narratives of nonprofit wrongdoing through a rhetorical analysis of organizational responses and media coverage exhibited in a case of wrongdoing at the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network. By exploring wrongdoing and the related issues of trust and legitimacy within the nonprofit context, this project provides an initial examination of how nonprofit wrongdoing is conceptualized and how NPOs respond to and manage these issues of trust and legitimacy.

Author

• Ashley Jones-Bodie, Louisiana State University